, 1887-08-18
MINING ITEMS.
Rich Finds and Bright Prospects.

now on exhibition at the branch
Bank Of Murray, are beautiful be.
yond all description. They were
taken out of cavity In the face of |
the Davenport tunnel on the Sierra |
Nevada mine. The native silver is 1
found in seams and cavities or vugs |
In bodies OF carbonate of lead ore.
The General Custer and Honduras
claims on Pine creek were bonded
last week to San Francisco parties
for $l1, ZOO.
w. Erwin, Is. Presley, Il. G.. Good,
and j. West have II force of men
working on the Carbonate lode about
three and onc-half miles from
Wardner.
j. ClineSmith, Gilbert and others
are developing the Red Cloud mine
on pine creek with good results.
They are taking out quantity of
very good looking ore.
w. l.. Smith, Boyer, McKenney
and others on the Nashville lode ON
Pine creek have a tunnel in forty
feet, showing u ledge five feet wide,
carry ing galena and crystallized
lead on the whole face of the tunnel.
DIR. f.. o. Smith and Capt. Gamble
have secured six months bond on
the Bell mine, and also working
lease for five years In case they do
not purchase the property at the ex.
| pirat.on of the bond. The mine Is
located on Thompson river end is
galena property with Il vein averag-
ing two feet in thickness.
James j.. Riley and l.. l.. French
are working the frankie T.. and
Chico Consolidated on the eastern
tributary of Elk creak. Since last
spring they have cut II ditch half
mile long and built a reservoir from
which Il ground sluce has been cut
100 feet long at an average depth of
80 feet They have tunnel 60 feet
in length on the Chico and have run
an incline OF l40 feet. The air has
become so foul they will have to run
another tunnel on the level with the
creek or place an air pump in the
works. .-Wardner News.
1t is reported that gold has been
discovered at Black River Junction,
abont ten miles from Seattle, by
three men who claim to be old
miners from California. There is
considerable excitement over it. A
number of people went out to the
place and thirty or forty claims have
been staked out. The finders claim
to have had rock assayed, and that
1T runs from SIG to $40 per ton gold
and $4 in silver. Color was found
on Jorgensen's farm. Three adj
joining farms are Overrun with pros
pectors. A party of miners started
n tunnel Monday morning. A placer
mine ws5 also discovered day or
two ago on VashOn island, and Il
claim has been filed with officials and
work commenced.
The following transfer was re-.
corded on August g: Simon G.. Reed
and wife to the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan Mining and Concentrating
all their interest i'm the following
lodes: Bunker Hill, Sullivan, Bunker
Hill fraction, Important fraction,
Triangle fraction, Small Hopes, Reed
| fraction, Sancho fraction, Stem
winner fraction; also several water
rights, Coovert mill site, the concen-
TRAITOR formerly owned by the Hell
ena Concentrating company, situ-
ated on Milo gulch, and Bunker Hill
mill site, Yreka district; $1,000, $50.
S. S. Glidden is shipping ore by
way of Thompson Falls. About one
third of the ore taken from the Tiger
mine will be shipped without con-
centration. Mr.. Glidden has nearly
completed the ground work for his
concentrator, the machinery oi
which is i'm transit from Thompson
Falls to Burke, and will have ca
pacity of 1875 tons daily. Wallace
Free Press.
Wood River Times: Otto Bach,
man has arrived from Rocky Bar
d. coming across Camas prairie. He
' req .rts the Alturas Mining company
a "mployingFixty or seventy men
'h. Wishing few, and Harry
Thompson and others IL few each
Altogether about 100 men are em
, pioyed I'm the mines. Some changes
= such III the sale Of the Wide West
are looked for almost daily, which
{ will give employment To many
q more, so that by this time next yea
Mr.. BachmaD expects to see 200 O
800 men at wOrk for wages OH tn,
: bar.
: Corvallis (Montanal New Era
, There Is considerable excitement Ia
MissOuIa county In regard to the
Mineral Hill mining region. From
:, results Of recent assays IL Is thought
9 there will be "a big stampede to thi'
country next season. a great many
people thought ut first that the re-
. ports from this camp were of the
: wildcat order and that Il few who
were interested i'm mining claim,
5 were trying to get up boom to un
: load their prospects. 1t IL looked up
on differently since the reports have
| been confirmed by the assays, which
t astound every one.
Mr.. Il. l.. Brophy, formerly ol
/, WashOe, where he was prominently
5 connected with mines for twenty
, years, but lately of Wardner, COeul
d'Alene, was In town last week
showing some very fine samples Ol
, ore from the neighbOrhoodO of Joseph
clnde silver, copper, Zinc and tin
aud assay very highly for surface
rock. To these minerals Mr.. BrOphy